Hullabaloo Community Quire is one of Brighton’s longest established, nationally renowned and much loved Natural Voice choir... and that means NO auditions, NO sight singing, NO judgements & NO limits! Our strength is in our repertoire and our ethos...  ink" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreHullabaloo Community Quire is one of Brighton’s longest established, nationally renowned and much loved Natural Voice choir... and that means NO auditions, NO sight singing, NO judgements & NO limits! Our strength is in our repertoire and our ethos. We sing songs of protest, passion and celebration throughout the ages From all around the world. Leaving no generic stone unturned, our repertoire is wildly eclectic and deeply funky; songs to make you laugh, stomp your feet, shiver with harmonic delight and keep coming back for more! Our Musical Director Kirsty Martin explains our vision: “We believe that collective song is a strong and versatile instrument that can move mountains. We stand out From the sing-along choirs and the corporate choral businesses as a bold creative force; an equitable, exploratory and enjoyable musical community who share and perform innovative vocal music together with a palpable and infectious joy. We’re willing to go where no choirs have gone before! We are the music makers, ...    ink" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less

Have you ever had to pause in the middle of a rehearsal because one of your singers is out of Tune?   Do you get frustrated when, no matter how many times you practice blending exercises and focus on listening to one another, there is still a voice...

V Festival Coral internacional Gustavo Gómez Ardila Zapatoca, Santander Octubre de 2011

Wondrous Love, arranged by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw From our 2014 concert, No Such Beauty: Songs About Home Love this? Subscribe to our channel and follow us on Twitter @aestasvocis and on facebook.com/aestas.vocis

Erik Satie's Sarabande No. 1 is one of my favourite piano pieces. For a long time, I felt there was an a cappella choral piece hiding within it, in plain sight. One day I got inspired and gave it a try. Creating a choral adaptation of a piano piece ha...  ink" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreErik Satie's Sarabande No. 1 is one of my favourite piano pieces. For a long time, I felt there was an a cappella choral piece hiding within it, in plain sight. One day I got inspired and gave it a try. Creating a choral adaptation of a piano piece has its challenges. I tried to keep faithful to Satie's original musical inspiration and created lyrics to go with my arrangement that evoke an early summer morning, one of my favourite times of the year. Several months later, I applied to be a participant at one of the Vancouver Chamber Choir's interplay workshops funded by the SOCAN Foundation and to my delight I was accepted. "As dawn breaks" was one of the pieces that this amazing choir sight read for me on the spot. VCC director Jon Washburn and choir members then provided me with valuable feedback, for which I am very grateful. NB: One day I woke up to the realization that I had independently written four choral works, each of which had evoked a different season, and so it seemed natural to group ...    ink" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less

Sweeney Todd - Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Arranged by Andy Beck Caitlin Hayes on Piano, Colin Parker on Drums, JC Thompson on Bass

The Mansfield University Concert Choir at the 2012 World Choir Games in their Gold Medal winning performance in the Folklore Competition.

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   It’s the first week of the new choir. Everyone is having fun, songs are being learnt at a cracking pace, the whole room is in Tune with each ot...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Sometimes I only have to hear two notes of a song and I know what it is.   Photo by bishib70   Often I join in with someone singing a song...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   in 2014 a Britney Spears recording escaped into the wild which demonstrates that without Auto-Tune her singing can be less than perfect (Experience t...